EUM

The dfs items in MIKE IO are represented by the ItemInfo class. An ItemInfo consists of:

• name - a user-defined string
• type - an EUMType
• unit - an EUMUnit

The ItemInfo class has some sensible defaults, thus you can specify only a name or a type. If you don’t specify a unit, the default unit for that type will be used.

from mikeio import ItemInfo, EUMType, EUMUnit

item = ItemInfo("Viken", EUMType.Water_Level)
item

Viken <Water Level> (meter)

ItemInfo(EUMType.Wind_speed)

Wind speed <Wind speed> (meter per sec)

ItemInfo("Viken", EUMType.Water_Level, EUMUnit.feet)

Viken <Water Level> (feet)

Matching units for specific type:

EUMType.Wind_speed.units

[meter per sec, feet per sec, knot, km per hour, miles per hour]

Default unit:

EUMType.Precipitation_Rate.units[0]

mm per day

unit = EUMType.Precipitation_Rate.units[0]
unit

mm per day

type(unit)

<enum 'EUMUnit'>

an EUMUnit is encoded as integers, which you can utilize in some MIKE applications.

int(unit)
2004

2004

EUM type search

It is also possible to do a string based search, e.g. to find all EUM types containing the substring ‘period’:

EUMType.search("period")

[Wave period, Return period, Update Period, Threshold period]